(Image credit: Daniel J. Prostak)Bill Zender is th... ...r more and play the max bet. On penny slots, the odds are jacked up in the house’s favor by 15 t... ...matched all 20 numbers on a 20-spot ticket. The odds of it ever happening are 1 in 3,535,316,142,212,... ...eople who walk into a casino hav...

by Tristan Miller
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Informal empirical and anecdotal evidence from the (male) scientific community has long pointed to the difficulty in securing decent, long-term...

Do apes love to gamble just like humans do? You be... ...Planck scientists reveal that apes can calculate odds before taking risky gambles:
Experts observed... ...und that they were also able to identify when the odds were stacked against them and when it was wiser t... ...the safe bet.
As more cups wer...

Jen Clarke of West London opened four eggs in a ro... ...ur eggs in a row that were all double-yolked. The odds of such a thing happening must be astronomical -o... ...the short answer.
Many factors can affect these odds , like the possibility that a certain chicken or f...

Sometimes it is amazing how so-called experts can be so wrong!“No reader interest,” was the judgment of the London publisher W.H. Allen on Frederick Forsyth’s first novel, The Day of the Jackal. To date it has sold...